Guidance Search
The Department of Labor provides this guidance search tool as a single, searchable location where users may search for guidance issued by any of the Department’s agencies, including significant guidance documents under Executive Order 12866. Individual guidance documents are maintained on the various agency websites, and if you know what agency you are looking for, you may also find guidance by navigating directly to that agency’s website. The Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, which are not maintained by the Department, also include some of the Department’s interpretations of law and similar material.
OMB’s Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices establishes policies and procedures for the development, issuance, and use of significant guidance documents by Executive Branch departments, including requiring that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor. Petitions should identify the specific guidance document by name and include your reason(s) for the request.
On January 20, 2021, President Biden issued the “Executive Order on Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation.” In response, the Department issued a final rule January 27, 2021 to rescind its August 28, 2020 rule on guidance documents.
Search Tips
- If you are searching using an acronym, try a second search with the acronym spelled out. For example, if you are searching for guidance related to the Davis-Bacon Act, try searching "Davis-Bacon Act" as well as "DBA".
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Determining whether the injury would apply to the work-related exception personal task and outside the assigned working hours - [1904.5(b)(2)(v)]
Maintenance work in a manufacturing area after silica-generating tasks have been stopped - [1910.1053; 1910.1053(d)(1); 1910.1053(e)(4); 1910.1053(g)(1)]
Types of construction work excluded from the Silica standard - [1926.1153; 1926.1153(a); 1926.1153(c)(1); 1926.1153(d); 1926.1153(e); 1926.1153(f)(1); 1926.1153(h); 1926.1153(i)]
Provides transition relief with respect to the requirement under the CSEC Act to provide a list of contributing employers for the 2017 annual reporting civil penalties and prior year Forms 5500 or 5500-SF.
This document represents OSHA’s summary of the scope of coverage and protected activity and the procedures for investigating and adjudicating retaliation complaints under the Seaman’s Protection Act.
FAQs that provide specific information regarding individuals who perform task work for wages.
Answers to questions regarding practical significance in EEO Analysis
Provide clarifying and educational information about what constitutes a selection procedure that is subject to the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP) at 41 CFR part 60-3, how OFCCP identifies selection disparities, and how OFCCP i
A letter in response to your request for an opinion concerning Pay Analysis Groupings (PAGs). In particular, this letter seeks to address your inquiry as to whether contractors can work with OFCCP to develop a PAG structure that OFCCP would accept as vali
Blog by Jennifer Sheehy on the 29th anniversary of the ADA
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